Sentences with phrase «for women players»

The Guerreiras Project started in 2012 as a way for women players to share stories of prejudice they experienced and the fight they had to go through to play this sport.

The film runs more than two hours as it is, and it's more about the long game — King's determination to get equal rights for women players — than the fate of any one match.

One would need to know the maximums and particular speed and stamina thresholds for each woman player, and this is delicate information that teams «scrupulously» conceal so as not to give their rivals any clues.

Not exact matches

She's writing a book exploring why women themselves are partly responsible for the fact that women are not huge players in the tech space.

The group included players from all walks of basketball — role players, veterans, players with short - lived careers, star college players, successful women players — who had traveled from around the country, through a snowy New York, for the meeting.

The tennis great, who is expecting her first child this fall with Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit, said her hope is to further that goal for the next generation of women players.

Additionally, student newspaper The Daily Tar Heel reports, the new report «found clear evidence that academic counselors from the football, men's basketball and women's basketball teams asked for players to be enrolled in bogus independent study classes in order for them to be eligible.»

In the meantime, she'll have to settle for being the best women's soccer player in the world.

«Just because Peter Thiel is a Silicon Valley billionaire, his opinion does not trump our millions of readers who know us for routinely driving big news stories including Hillary Clinton's secret email account, Bill Cosby's history with women, the mayor of Toronto as a crack smoker, Tom Cruise's role within Scientology, the N.F.L. cover - up of domestic abuse by players and just this month the hidden power of Facebook to determine the news you see.»

USA fans with an «Equal Play Equal Pay» banner supporting the women players fight for equal pay with their male counterparts during the USA Vs Colombia

In a statement, Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker Media, who was also personally named in the Hogan suit, said: «Just because Peter Thiel is a Silicon Valley billionaire, his opinion does not trump our millions of readers who know us for routinely driving big news stories including Hillary Clinton's secret email account, Bill Cosby's history with women, the mayor of Toronto as a crack smoker, Tom Cruise's role within Scientology, the N.F.L. cover - up of domestic abuse by players and just this month the hidden power of Facebook to determine the news you see.»

At one point in 1999, Cohen cashed a $ 350,000 check an NHL player wrote as a loan for a Russian woman.

«Every day, in season and out of season, coaches and players (and women on staff) pray before they begin their duties and often ask God through Jesus Christ for guidance and health in the carrying out of their functions.

To showcase once again how Heineken ® is pairing their decades of passion for soccer with the momentum the beautiful game has seen in the U.S., Heineken ® has launched the «Soccer is Here» campaign, which debuts a hat trick of renowned players as spokespeople, including International Spanish star and New York City Football Club (NYCFC) captain, David Villa, U.S. Women's National team captain and summer games hero, Carli Lloyd and American soccer legend Landon Donovan.

One of the greatest women's basketball players in history, Staley stands as a no - brainer for induction.

Emily Peach (Magdalen) showed rays of quality and won the Women's Player of the Match for her efforts in the No. 1 string.

It's also worth noting that men's teams aren't allowed to send players over 23 - years old, however, there's no age restriction for the women's teams.

Considering the number of blues players that were lost at the end of last year, the women's blues have had a brilliant first half of the season and are well of track of achieving their aims for the year.

On Oct. 27 - 29 thousands of women soccer players will fill the fields in Placer Valley for the biggest and most competitive fall soccer event in Northern California, the Placer United Girls Cup.

THERESA HIRSCHAUER CINCINNATI Hirschauer, a senior striker, became the leading women's soccer career goalscorer for both Brown (62) and the Ivy League (29) in her four varsity seasons.She was named the conference's woman player of the year last season.

Women's Olympic hockey players had to walk from the rink where their locker room was to the practice rink, which proved too difficult a task for the goalies.

They pack their players off, telling them to stay free from injury, alcohol and women, only to see them return looking doubtful for the weekend fixture.

I called the number that was listed in the ad and listened to a man named Joe explain that an NBA player had bought Hawk for a lot of money; that the player hadn't been able to take care of Hawk and had wound up giving him to a close friend, Joe's mother; and that the woman had become frightened of Hawk and had decided to sell him for «$ 800 or best offer.»

«I don't condone players who have had affairs, but the fact is, there are women who hunt pro athletes in the hope of becoming pregnant and filing paternity suits to make an income,» says Pat Richie, the chaplain for the San Francisco Giants and 49ers.

«If the court system is going to make an athlete pay a substantial amount of money, there should be a contract for women that they can't just take the money and spend it on whatever they want,» says a San Francisco 49ers player who has one out - of - wedlock son.

Her last chance to regain the kind of national acclaim that vanished for her after high school, to become a player whom the two fledgling women's pro leagues will come looking for.

For Serena, who had already completed the career grand slam, it's her first gold medal, making her just the second women's player to accomplish the career Golden Slam (Steffi Graf being the other).

Every player suspended for substance abuse got more time than Ray Rice did for knocking a woman out: via @SBNation pic.twitter.com/tIy 2eqehJd

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That's the future for women's basketball players: You are not only big, fast, quick and athletic, you're playing every position on the floor.»

According to reports in Nigeria, the striker — who was named African Womens Player of the Year in 2014 — will discuss personal terms with the Gunners, and thrash out the small print of the contract, before deciding whether she will swap life in Merseyside for a switch to London.

A reprise of the 1992 Solheim nightmare that took place in Edinburgh, Scotland, would have forced the U.S. players to lug around for yet another two years the knowledge that they had failed in the biggest moments of the most important event in women's golf.

Although women's pro golf in America over the last five decades has constantly struggled for recognition and credibility, the LPGA's native pros have never had to dig as deep to restore their reputations as the world's best players as they did last week in West Virginia.

Before winning their own gold medal, the U.S. women's basketball players watched from the upper reaches of Karaiskaki Stadium as the U.S. women's soccer team played for gold.

And at Wimbledon in»92 the British tabloids dubbed Krajicek the Rotterdam Rotter for saying, «Eighty percent of the top women players are fat, lazy pigs who should not be allowed on the show courts.»

Each year Hameline brings in some 75 students who think they are football players, a significant number for a small school (Wagner's full - time enrollment: 1,292, half of whom are women).

«This is a huge moment for women's football here and all the players are excited for what lies ahead.

Scan the list of abuses that beset college sports, and your football team can claim, going back to 1980, at least one entry in virtually every category: improper benefits; recruiting violations; boosters run amok; academic cheating; use of steroids and recreational drugs; suppressed or ignored positive tests for drugs; player run - ins with other students as well as with campus and off - campus police; the discharge of weapons and the degradation of women in the football dorm; credit - card fraud and telephone credit - card fraud.

The University of Miami Hurricanes are already recruiting a 9 - year - old girls basketball player, Jaden Newman, to play for their women's program...

While it really shouldn't be what is important, because it's still relatively unusual / rare for a woman to be working in the NFL with the players like this, like it or not.

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I don't think the idea of women having difficulties containing their voracious sexual appetites would come off as endearingly as Jackson is trying to make things seem for NFL players who «struggle» with the issue.

The LPGA players do not seem to resent CBS or Wright, whom some players defend as a longtime friend of women's golf, or the double standard by which women athletes are judged, for appearance and sexuality as well as ability.

Kudos to Lefty for going all in — as a booster, if not a financier — on helping the women break the glass ceiling in the chipping contest in which all four players hit flop shots over an eight - foot wall and attempted to smash panes of glass suspended 20 feet in the air.

Her protègèe for the last two years has been 34 - year - old Martina Navratilova, perhaps the greatest woman player who ever lived.

Though she led the crusade for bigger prize money in women's tennis, she did not get rich — at least not by the standards of today's players.

As I noted above, it's really cool just to see these players in the village and the women gunning for what could be a career - defining win.

She has won the FIFA Women's Player of the Year for the last two seasons.

Over the past few months, our Cheshire - based women's football team have been working tirelessly to recruit players for their second team, as well as organising lots of activities to keep their current players involved!